It was many years ago during a drink-fueled St. Patrick’s Day conversation that the Celtic rock band Enter The Haggis was born.

One of the founding members suggested creating a band with the name haggis in it and a friend suggested using part of a Bruce Lee film title and the Toronto-based band’s name stuck like bad pudding.

While the band wasn’t fully realized during the St. Patrick’s Day show, the seeds of inspiration had been planted for a band that continues to broaden its creative direction with each album.

“We like to say that the name is fitting since traditional haggis is a mixture of all these different things and our music does not fit into one specific genre or style,” said bassist/vocalist Mark Abraham.

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The band also features Brian Buchanan on vocals, guitar, and fiddle, Craig Downie on vocals, bagpipes, guitar, and many other instruments, Trevor Lewington on vocals, guitar, and mandolin, and Bruce McCarthy on drums.

Beginning with 2011’s “Whitelake” album and continuing with 2013’s “The Modest Revolution,” the band found success producing their music using crowd funding. They raised more than $40,000 to produce “Whitelake” via their website. For “The Modest Revolution” they set an initial goal of $20,000 and raised more than $60,000. Recently they finished a campaign for their forthcoming release titled “The Penny Black Project,” raising more than $60,000 via the website PledgeMusic.

Their backers/fans donate the seed money for the project in exchange for promotional perks such as, getting a matching tattoo with one of the band members, recording in the studio with the band, taking a trip to Ireland with the band, receiving handwritten song lyrics, or just for the satisfaction of helping the band continue to record.

The band loves to tell a good story through its music. On their current release, “The Modest Revolution,” the group looked to the news for inspiration.

“So many of our songs are based off of people’s lives and personal experiences,” Abraham said. “We wanted to challenge ourselves and write songs based off the stories in one day of the newspaper.”

The band selected their hometown paper, Toronto’s The Globe and Mail, as their source of inspiration and preordered 1500 copies of a randomly selected paper to give to all their backers.

“We didn’t know what to expect,” Abraham said. “We were just hoping for a good news day to write some songs about.”

At first glance the paper appeared to be a rather slow news day and the lead stories focused on the Canadian federal budget.

The band was committed to crafting music out of the paper and dug deeper to find its art. What they delivered was an album that spanned the paper, from the front page to the obituaries to the sports pages.

“The song ‘Letters’ is one of my favorite on the album,” Abraham said. “It was from a small headline about two guys who went exploring an old mine shaft in a remote section of the Nevada desert. Their car broke down and they were stranded without communication to the outside world for days in the heat. One friend died and the other one barely made it. When he was rescued he had a bunch of letters on him that he’d written to his wife and loved ones, thinking he wouldn’t see them again.”

ETH sings about unlikely characters gathered from a variety of sources. For their upcoming release, “The Penny Black Project,” the band has asked its fans to mail them their personal stories the old fashioned way, via letters. The songs on this album will be either directly based off the letters from fans or inspired by the letters.

“No one has admitted to any murders or anything scandalous like that,” Abraham said, “but we’ve gotten some pretty good stories to work with.”

The band is on a tight schedule to write the songs as they’ve already booked a studio in Maine for May 2014 to record the album. When they’re not writing, they’re touring and they have an upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day show in the area.

ETH has many fans in Pennsylvania. In 2001 the band played its first US show at a Celtic festival in Lancaster.

“Our shows run the gamut from our really early stuff to our new stuff,” Abraham said.

Enter The Haggis performs March 14 at 9 p.m. at the Ardmore Music Hall, 23 E. Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the show. Call 610-649-8389. For more information on the band, visit www.enterthehaggis.com.